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James "Jim" Harrison (born December 11, 1937) is an American author known for his poetry, fiction, reviews, essays about the outdoors, and writings about food. He has been called "a force of nature", and his work has been compared to that of William Faulkner and Ernest Hemingway. Harrison's characters tend to be rural by birth and to have retained some qualities of their agrarian pioneer heritage in spite of their intelligence and some formal education. They attune themselves to both the natural and the civilized world, surrounded by excesses but determined to live their lives as well as possible.
Harrison was born in Grayling, Michigan, to Winfield Sprague Harrison, a county agricultural agent, and Norma Olivia (Wahlgren) Harrison, both avid readers.
He became blind in one eye after a childhood accident ("My left eye is blind and jogs like/a milky sparrow in its socket"). He is a 1956 graduate of Haslett High School, Haslett, Michigan. When he was 21, his father and sister died in an automobile accident.
Actors: Thomas Kopache (actor), Glenn Morshower (actor), Natalija Nogulich (actress), Charles Wilkinson (writer), Mary Pat Gleason (actress), David Michael Frank (composer), Jim Beaver (actor), Bill Smitrovich (actor), Roy Dotrice (actor), Peter Horton (actor), David Graf (actor), Mark W. Rosenbaum (editor), Virgil Frye (actor), Ramon Bieri (actor), Bradley Pierce (actor),
Genres: Drama,Actors: Graeme Blundell (actor), Tony Morphett (writer), Robert Bruning (producer), Tina Bursill (actress), Melissa Jaffer (actress), Russell Newman (actor), David Franklin (actor), Alan Lovell (actor), Annie Byron (actress), Garry Hardman (composer), Anne Carter (editor), Grant Dodwell (actor), Monroe Reimers (actor), Andrea Moor (actress), Robert Marchand (director),
Genres: Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi,Actors: Carol Kane (actress), Tess Harper (actress), Isabelle Adjani (actress), Charles Grodin (actor), Alex Hyde-White (actor), Nadim Sawalha (actor), Nadim Sawalha (actor), Warren Clarke (actor), Dustin Hoffman (actor), Arthur Brauss (actor), Matt Frewer (actor), Warren Beatty (actor), David Margulies (actor), Dave Grusin (composer), Warren Beatty (producer),
Plot: Two terrible lounge singers get booked to play a gig in a Moroccan hotel but somehow become pawns in an international power play between the CIA, the Emir of Ishtar, and the rebels trying to overthrow his regime.
Keywords: africa, airport, amateur-musician, arab, arrogance, aspiring-musician, awkwardness, bad-nightclub-singer, bad-singing, ballpoint-penActors: Ron Smerczak (actor), Anant Singh (producer), Nanette K. Martin (actress), Brent Huff (actor), Jay Ferguson (composer), Sanjeev Singh (miscellaneous crew), Adrienne Pierce (actress), Michael McCabe (actor), Erica Rogers (actress), Doreen Merriman (miscellaneous crew), Eric Flynn (actor), Larry Larson (writer), Larry Larson (director), Debi Nethersole (producer), James White (actor),
Plot: L.A. private eye Sam Black, who lives with his half-brother, Andrew, travels to the Bahamas to assist Abigail Marx, a woman who believes her husband is stealing money from their company. Black finds the proof but in the process is shot by Harry Marx. While recuperating in a Bahamas hospital he meets a beautiful widow, also from L.A., named Martha Greenwood. Back in California, Black reunites with Martha who tells him the money left her by her late husband is controlled by unscrupulous business manager, Robert Chandler. Together Black and Martha devise a scheme to transfer the money away from Chandler's control. Black carries out his part of this scheme but then discovers that Martha has plans of her own.
Keywords: bahamas, embezzlement, independent-film, los-angeles, money, murder, private-detective, theftActors: George P. Breakston (producer), Martin Boddey (actor), George P. Breakston (director), Philip Green (composer), George P. Breakston (writer), John Bentley (actor), Alan Tarlton (actor), Vera Fusek (actress), Robert V. Perkins (producer), Kipkamoi (actor), Leslie Tasker (editor), John R. Carter (producer), B.J. Robson (producer), James Fuggel (actor), Derek L.L. John (actor),
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Plot: It's been two weeks of unrelenting New York City summer heat. Sooner or later the boys are apt to get into mischief, so Knuckles takes the load of 'em to Algy's father's camp in the mountains. The trip gets sidetracked when they cross paths with Judge Parker' party on the road. The Judge, hiding from the mob, is desperately heading to his mountain manor when he runs the boys' vehicle off the road, nearly disabling it right before his own car conks out. With only the boys' car barely able to travel, they all wind up at the judge's manor where ghostly sightings, spooky organ music, death threats and a creepy housekeeper await them. Judge Parker is the very judge who once nearly put Knuckles on death row for murder. When the judge turns up dead, Knuckles is in trouble again, with little brother Danny and the gang ready to help him out.
Keywords: adirondack-mountains, bodyguard, bowery-boys, brother, cake, camp, cigar-smoking, cook, court, dead-end-kidsActors: Carl Alstrup (actor), Mathilde Felumb Friis (actress), A.W. Sandberg (writer), A.W. Sandberg (director), Henny Lauritzen (actress), Stella Lind (actress), Amanda Lund (actress), Carl Hintz (actor),
Genres: Drama, Short,